Love makes every flaw disappear as a stumbling block to love. That is why he can say, You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
Here we see how especially in the marriage of God’s children, love has to rule according to 1 Corinthians 13:7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
In the marriage where the love of Christ reigns, the wife and husband forgive each other. They seek each other out in love time and again.
Therefore, Ephesians 4:26–27 is also very important in our marriages: Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
Then we rather stay up until two o’clock in the morning talking and seeking each other out. We should talk things out with each other without going to sleep with anger in our hearts, or in another bed than our spouse. When we forgive each other, everything is out of the way and we are able to pray together again. Pray that the love for each other may grow again. Then every flaw is covered by love—the unique love between the husband and his wife based on God’s love. This is how Christ is at work as the Saviour in our lives. Why do the children of God live from the love of Christ in their marriage? Why do we need to repeatedly work on it through our prayer to the Lord? It is because we constantly need the power of the Holy Spirit to escape the dangers that threaten mutual love.
7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.